Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Tough!/Hard Bop

Bill Hardman | Jackie McLean | Jimmy ‘Spanky’ DeBrest | Art Blakey | Sam Dockery

Sandwiched between the Silver/Dorham/Mobley line-up and the Morgan/Golson/Timmons triumvirate there was the Messengers' much lesser known Hardman/McLean aggregation. Though they...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012

Federico Ughi: Songs for Four Cities

This Italian drummer quartet featuring bassist Ed Schuller and acidic alto saxophonist Darius Jones perform the leader's urban-themed originals....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Chris Greene Quartet: A Group Effort

A sax-led Chicago-based groove jazz band with funk and hip hop rhythmic influences perform live without really stretching things at...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Alphonse Mouzon: The Man Incognito

Tom Scott | Victor Feldman | George Duke | Tim DeHuff | Gary Grant | Dave Benoit | Lee Ritenour | Ray Pizzi | George Bohanon | Dave Grusin

Ever wondered where Will.i.am got that interstellar soul man look? No? Shame on you: just check the cover of The...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2012

Natalia Duncan: Devil In Me

A case of severe melancholia diagnosed for this 23-year old singer-songwriter who needs to lighten up a bit, with influences...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Ralph Bowen: Total Eclipse

Ralph Bowen | Mike Moreno | Rudy Royston | Jared Gold

This is the fourth album for Posi-Tone by one of the most technically gifted but strangely under-acclaimed saxophonists in jazz...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2012

Alamaallman Vasarat: Valta

A Finnish band describing themselves as playing ‘kosher-kebab-jazz-film’ music, can add ’metal‘ to that list though not to the extent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams – The Next 100 Years

Virginia Mayhew | Ed Cherry | Andy Watson | Wycliffe Gordon | Harvie S

Mayhew is an active and welcome presence on the New York scene often heard fronting larger groups than this one....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2012

Vloelmans/Weber: Live at the Concertgebouw

Recorded live in Holland, the Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is in intimate, melancholic mood here in duo with the German...

Reviewed by Seiwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Joe leader: Seductive Sax

This is one smooth jazz cliché after another: a live date at the Pheasantry, for the Dave Koz-recommended saxophonist....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012